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The Lord of the Beasts (The Beastmaster) 1982 Don Coscarelli 🇺🇸
🔎 What's it about? Pseudo-medieval adventures in tailcoats.
📽 Who made it? Coscarelli, one of the forgotten of the modern B series, director of sublime horror fables such as: Phantasma (79), sinister totem of pre-eighties horror that introduces us to the hypnotic universe of the Tall Man; Ghost II. The return (88), facelift overbudgeted from the original story; Survival School (89), an adventurous plot of young people involved in a survival game with the magnetic Lance Henriksen; Phantasma III: The Passage of Terror/ Phantasma Apocalypse (94/98), taciturn returns to the horror of flying spheres and underworld dwarfs; Bubba Ho-tep (02), a nostalgic and funny scary tale with a plot as delicious as it is out of the ordinary; Human Sculptures (05), the first episode of Masters of Horror is a duel between a mutant and a superheroine, hard to forget; and John dies at the end (012), a surreal and paranoid sci-fi story that we can understand as a summary of the director's career.
💎 What shines? A fiery and clueless warrior named Marc Singer (the one from V), an attractive pre-bond girl named Tanya Roberts, Lee Holdridge's musical epic, the classicist photography of the Kubrickian John Alcott, his pure Z series design (contemporary to all Italian exploits with unforgettable warriors like Ator, Gunan, Thor, Krotar...), and the pure and successful simplicity with which it is filmed and narrated.
👑 Why do we like it? Because it is the best Sorcery after the fresh irruption of John Milius's Conan, due to its inexhaustible range of enemies (the necromancer Maax, the juns, the birdmen, the guardians of death...), due to its environmental air underlined by the super-intelligent bestiary (the dyed tiger, the playful ferrets, the visionary eagle), and because there is something of it in later talented film adventures like Willow (88) or The Lord of the Rings (01).
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